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Most recent battle, i went up against orks. My line was holding its own but was faltering. By turn 4, it seemed doomed as the 28 men left saw 76 orks begin to charge, just as 2 leman russ mbt's came and
Killed half of the orks. Broken, they fled back to cover, and my remaining men and the tanks followed them, now backed up by a chimera. But the orks flooded out and the men managed to kill two as they destroyed both tanks the chimera, the group now had zero combat effectiveness, the battle was lost.
My freinds Said it couldve been avoided by haveing pintle weapons, like linked storm bolters or a stubber. Personal opinon needed, which of the two? And don't comment on my strategy, my artillery was hone and the lemans couln' t hit them, I just want too know which pintle mounted weapons because infantry protecting a tank doesn't work into my keep mobile ideas. So what for leman 1, 2 and the chimera?

Vs Orks? The Stubber: you have an extra shot and the reduced Ap doesn't matter against Boyz, which seemed to be your biggest problem in said situation.

Stubber is better although those points can get 2 flamers or something of that nature

Edit:repost

The Chimera can be equipped with 2 flamers on the cheap if I remember correctly, and they will roast Orks like there's no tomorrow.

And the Heavy Stubber is always better than the Stormbolter. Whatever wounds you would have gotten by ignoring a 5+ armor save can easily be compensated by giving you an extra shot.

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
And the Heavy Stubber is always better than the Stormbolter. Whatever wounds you would have gotten by ignoring a 5+ armor save can easily be compensated by giving you an extra shot.

Not to mention the extra 12"

Def stubber, I killed a blood angels melta marine in one of my games with one!


Did you have sponsons? People say they suck, but they rape orks.

Stubber.

Ap5 is the same as Ap6 against orks as they won't get an armor against either unless they are Ard boys in which case the Stubber is still better as it has more shots and neither will punch through Evy armor.


in the situation you described you were actually done in by chasing after the orks. if you had stayed back you could have kept shelling them with your Russes. this would have eventually destroyed them and forced your opponent to attempt another charge accross the open which would have had the same result as when they tried the first time.